Each year The Film School holds two open auditions. It's a really good idea. Anyone can come in. They fill out a form with their information and acting experience, get a head shot, and act out a scene that's recorded. This is inputted into a database and compiled in a...
Coffee & Celluloid
Acting for the Camera
"Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances." -Stanislavski In the spring semester we had a few acting workshops to prepare us for our F2s. Acting isn't exactly my favorite thing in the world, and one of my directing weak points. I'd much rather be behind...
Making a Scene
For the past couple of week's we've had to pick a scene from our F3, rehearse it with our ATL members, then act it out in front of the class for our directing and acting teachers to see how the scene plays. Then the following week we record the performance and play it...
On-Set Adventures For 2007-11-25
Realized director's prep presentation is in two days, have to get busy #
I Redeem Myself as Producer
So tone of voice doesn't come out in written communication. I'm sure you already knew that, but just in case you didn't, it doesn't, especially on Facebook wall posts. It was the director, Charles', birthday. His film has two locations - a plantation house interior...
Office Director
So I directed a movie. Last week had to be the busiest I've experienced while at Film School. On Thursday I had breakfast and didn't eat again until 9:30 pm. And I was never hungry. The film went off quite well. We got a total of about 60 setups in two days. 20 a day...
How to Get a Dodge Magnum and Party Bus for Free [Producing]
While most of The Treasonist, the second film I produced, took place inside, the opening was supposed to have truckloads of shock-troops pile out of transports, ready to neutralize the hostage situation. I tried contacting the Army reserve, but by the time I got in...
Dailies and Director Cuts
Wednesday I finally got to see all the footage from my F3, and I think it looks great. It was a lot funnier than I had anticipated, but it was the comedy I was hoping for. Dry, this-is-life-and-it's-funny comedy. The strange thing about seeing the footage, though, is...
Making the Hard Cuts [Editing]
The past week has been all editing, with a few classes thrown in. I've been having a lot of fun with the process. To explain a bit about it, this is the first time we're not editing our own films. There's three editing cycles, followed by three sound design cycles....